Excavated: 1914 (no excavation report published; Calza); 1970 (Pohl 1987, trench c).
Mosaic: ---.
Inscription: ---.
Date: ---.
Meas. of tesserae: ---.

Photos and drawings:

Front room and back room (left) (gh2)

Statio 45 + statio 44 (centre + right) (gh2)

Depiction (et)

Depiction (gh)

Depiction (gh2)

Mosaic

The photographic documentation of the south-west part is inadequate, inspection in situ is needed.

Like statio 43, the rear half of the back room is a separate room, not connected with the statio. On the floor a piece of mosaic was found, 0.20 higher than the mosaic in the front room (excavations Pohl). The floor of the front half of the back room is preserved almost entirely. The north side is framed by a black band, four tesserae wide, emerging from the passage to the front room, then turning outward, and continuing to the back wall. The band also frames the west end of the floor, just in front of the wall of the separate room in the rear part (the north end of the band is preserved).

The floor of the west part of the front room has been preserved. On the north side it is framed by the continuation of the black band in the back room, four tesserae wide. In the south-west corner of the front room is an L-shape made of two big, solid black rectangles. The south-west corner of the L consists of an irregular patch of white tesserae. The north part of the L ends in a regular way at the north end, approximately halfway the passage to the back room. The east part of the L ends irregularly at the east end. To the south of the L is a mixture of black and white tesserae with a few pieces of white marble, slightly to the north of the axis of the central column. Below that, so in the west part of the passage to statio 45, is a big, solid black rectangle. To the east of that is part of a black band, running west-east, two tesserae wide.

No text has been preserved.

In the back part of the front room, to the north of the L-shape, is an olive branch carrying a few olives. It should be looked at from the east.

Masonry

The back wall of the separate room in the rear part is of opus reticulatum. The south wall of this room is of opus vittatum mixtum A. It continues in the front part of the back room. It rests on a mosaic (excavations Pohl). The north-south wall dividing the two parts of the back room consists of restored, rubble masonry. Pohl's plan shows a dividing wall in the separate room in the back room, between stationes 43 and 44.

Interpretation

The office is related to the import of olive oil.